Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1936, Page 39

‘ "Navy Music School Is Dream Of Its Founder Come_True Lieut. Charles H. Benter Proud of Newest Organization. BY JESSIE FANT EVANS. OULDN'T you be proud if you were in the first gradu- ating class of the United States Navy School of Mu- sic and with 20 of your fellow “grads” had been assigned as a unit to con- stitute a Navy band aboard the cruiser Indianapolis, which has Presi- dent Roosevelt aboard en route to Bouth America upon his good-will mission? Well, just that has happened to the class which graduated here in our * Washington Navy Yard on November 8, after a course which included a cruise with the midshipmen from Annapolis last Summer. Theirs was the acid test, too, of acceptably car- Tying on the usual broadcasting pro- gram of the famous Navy Band while its conductor, Lieut. Charles H. Ben- ter, recently had it on its annual tour throughout the United States. Right upon the heeis, too, of the graduation of this first class, came that of the second one on November 23. Nor was it lacking in distinction of assignment either, for its members Now constitute the band allocated to the commander in chief of our United States fleet, who is the senior naval officer aboard the flagship Pennsyl- vania off the West Coast. Picked Youth of America. I did not have the pleasure of hear- ing the band unit which went from its graduation exercises to board the Indianapolis, but I did chance upon & pre-graduation rehearsal of the sec- ond unit this past Friday a week. In | their blue seamen’s uniforms, what | .a fine, clean, upstanding group they were, looking every inch of them, from their heads to their heels, the | picked youth of America that they are. As for their music, if I am any | Judge, the fame of Navy Bands is going to be known in the maritime ports of the world. With squal rythm and zest, they uplifted your soul with a hymn or a bit of orches- tral music, set your pulses swinging and your feet in tune to a swinging march or made you long for a partner in a lively two-step or dreamy march. The third class to be enrolled in this unique school, the only one of its particular kind in America, will ar- rive at the Washington Navy Yard on December 1 and begins its two-year course of instruction on December 2. Group Carefully Picked. It consists of a picked group, 85 in number, literally almost fine-tooth combed from some 5,000 applicants selected from Maine to California. In o school in America, not even in Annapolis or West Point, has a stu- dent body been more carefully se- lected. ‘To be eligible for designation to this his United States Navy School of Music, Uncle Sam first prescribes | associates of this famous organization | that you shall be able to read music end play some instrument with pro- ficlency. He also prefers that you shall be able to furnish your own musical instrument on the theory that if you do, it will mean that your interest in music has been great enough to have stimulated you toward personal ownership. This, however, Is not mandatory, for if he puts his ©O. K. upon you, he will, where neces- sary, provide you with the instrument of your choice. If you have played in a school orchestra or band that's to your advantage, too. Under no circumstances is he in- terested in you, though, unless you sre an unmarried man not less than 18 years and not more than 25 years old. But, being a bachelor lad within the right age and scope and musically proficient as well, won't satisfy ex- acting Uncle Sam unless you are also @ graduate in good standing of a high | &chool. Several of the graduates of | the United States Navy School of | Music who are constituting the band | units aboard the Indianapolis and the | Pennsylvania are college graduates | as well and quite a number shave freshman and sophomore college courses to their credit. Nor is this even all that is required of would-be students. After they have qualified in a general classification test, they are checked to determine if they are | 63 inches in height and of propor- | tionate weight to their ages and | heights, in addition to being physically | fit as evidenced by a rigid physical | examination. Then, provided they have no police records (a lenient at- titude is taken toward minor infrac- tions not involving moral turpitude)— or juvenile court, reform school or prison records against them, Uncle Sam’s stamp of approval is set upon them as eligibles and they may enlist in his Navy for six years. Salary Is Paid. Once you are accepted in the Navy though as an eligible for its Music School, & salary is paid you upon the rating of an apprentice seamen, ‘which is $21 per month, plus clothes, quarters, mess, medical and dental service. So, difficult as Uncle Sam makes it for you to pass through the eye of his very fine needle, once you have achieved this feat, he not only pays you a salary, but begins looking after you generally as if you were his very own cherished ward as, indeed, you are. But he is a canny fellow still, for he keeps you on a four months’ probation service, including a three weeks' detention period at the Nor- folk, Virginia, Naval Training Sta- tion, where he sees to it that you are adapted to what the service expects of you, before he transfers you to his School of Music in the Washington Navy Yard. But, he does have a heart, if you fail to prove yourself as musically in- clined as he feels you should be to enter his Navy Music School, for in this case, if you so desire, he will per~ mit you to remain in a general detail and be sent to sea Very truly may it be said of those who are finally admitted to the United States Navy School of Music, “many are called, but few are chosen.” These Uncle Sam promptly advances to the rating of seamen second class and pro- motes to a salary of $36 a month. Upon the final arrival of this group at the Washington Navy Yard, its members are assigned to a special dormitory at its receiving station. Lieut. Comdr. J. R. Sullivanis, the present commanding officer in charge of the placement of the in-coming detail and of their general welfare, as he was of the two classes which have just graduated. Their physical fitness will be maintained and supervised by Capt. A. J. Toulon, senior medical officer of the yard and by Comdr. John J. O'Malley. ‘The United States Navy School of Music is the dream come true of its officer in charge, Lieut. Bentner, leader of that famous service organi- gation, the Navy Band, known to lovers of band music wherever radio dials are tuned in and an integral | LIEUT.CHARLES H. BENTER. ‘Washington where Navy service music is a feature of the occasion. Ever since he first entered the Navy nearly 30 years later, Lieut. Benter has felt the need of such a school and its existence is a tribute to the wis- dom and earnestness of his vision and the unwavering purposefulness with which he has advocated it. He is as proud of it, too, as you would expect a fond father to be of an in- fant prodigy. Navy thoroughness marks every de- tail of its set-up. Its avowed purpose is to give in two years the essentials of a musical education which a con- servatory would ordinarily cover in four. So, its course is an intensive one and its sessions are all the year around ones. School hours are from 8 am to 4 pm. on weekdays with national holidays the only vacations slated on the school's calendar. Spe- cial leave is seldom granted except in cases of emergency where family illness or death necessitate it, After 10 months of satisfactory serv- ice with the United States Naval School of Music its students are eligi- | ble to take an examination, success in which advances them to the rating of a musician, second class, at a salary of $54 a month. ‘The maximum salary to those in the United States Navy Band service is $150 a month with pension privileges after a continuous period of 21 years, and food, shelter, clothing and medical | and dental care during the time of | active service. The regular uniform of the students of the Navy's Music School is that of | the seamen’s, navy blue in color with & | little lyre upon the sleeve as the in- signia of their affiliation with the | band, TInvited to Concerts. That it may have the benefit of hearing finished musicians give se- | lected programs, the entire student body of the school is required to at- tend the weekly orchestra band concert which Lieut. Benter and his broadcast all over the United States |from the Navy Yard. Seated in a | special section, they are always of | interest to the music lovers among kzhe general public who flock to hear these programs, Special groups are selected from the Navy School of Music’s students to ipru\ide the music for the Sunday | church services held at the Navy Yard the year around. To these the public is always cordially welcome. Each student in the Music School is allowed one evening off a week, desig- nated as “liberty night,” and from Saturday after “inspection” until Monday morning. “Inspection” includes every imagin- able sort of check-up from the spick and spanness of yourself to that of your quarters. As one of the most im- maculate youths whom I have ever met put it to me in response to a query of mine, “from hair cuts and finger nails I would say, to whether your bed is without a wrinkle.” As the mother of sons I enviously found myself wishing that other educational institutions mignt somehow take on the Navy Music School's ideal of “ship- shape” as a part of general character education. Curriculum Varied. ‘The curriculum of the United States Navy School of Music is as varied as it is intensive, theory and practice runcing side by side. Its pupils have lectures in musical appreciation, the history of music and musical instru- ments, the theory of harmony and solfege (which is singing by syllables for training the ear to delicacy of pitch and sound). They also have expert individual instruction upon their own instruments and in en- sembles for band and orchestra, which include string, wind, wood and brass technique. The student who comes in playing & major instrument, say in the brass or woods—perhaps its & trombone or tubs must “double” for all-around efficiency upon a stringed instrument such as the violin, viola or guitar. The clarionet player must in time prove to be just as expert upon | the saxophone or vice versa. Lieut. Benter, in addition to being the leader of the band above all other bands, which is designated as “the Navy Band,” is the officer in charge of the Navy’s Music School. His ideal for its graduates is—that with equal ease they shall be able to play a symphony, lead a parade or put on a varled program for the fleet's entertainment, including the best jazz for & dance, ashore or afloat. Associated with Lieut. Benter is an all-Navy faculty, every one of whom is also & member of the band which he conducts. They are James Morgan Thurmond, dean of the school, Who is the instructor of bands. Ralph Mack is the head of the string depart- ment, instructor of advance violinists and of the violas, and director of band and orchestra string ensembles. Joseph Bernard is in charge of the school’s schedules and its relations with the public. To him and to Mr. Mack, as well as to many other indi- vidual members of the school's staff, I am indebted for patient, courtesy in the answering of countless questions and delightful co-operation in my sight-seeing trip about the school. John B. Peck is the instructor of trombones and of brass ensembles. John Liegel is the teacher of wood and wind instruments, John Reich- mach is in charge of solfege intruc- tion and of the theory and appre- ciation of music. H. Froman presides over the classes in harmony. The baritones come under the jurisdiction of G. Barbera. The drums look to Louis Goucher for their training. Albert Jones is the expert in instru- mentation. Ralph Lewis trains the Joseph Ratner is in charge of dance band music. C. Contranes is the librarian for the band, and what & collection of sheet music for all T ments has to be available when needed. H. J. O'Rourke is the school’s master at arms and disciplinary officer. The following are also attached to the school as special instructors: Maurice Coviello for the violin, Frank Gorel for the French horn, Samuel Stern for the cello and Charles F. Bullock for the cornet. In every instance these members of the Music School's faculty and its spe~ cial staff of instructors told me with loyalty and appreciation of their ad- miration for their leader, Lieut. Benter, with whom some of them had been assoclated in the Navy Band for as many as 19 years, A graduate school for first musicians who are the band leaders aboard ship for the band units that are now going out to the fleet has also been inaugu- rated under Lieut. Benter's direction, and this same faculty set-up. To it for six months’ periods will now come these musicians, picked for their outstanding ability and character leadership. Here, they too, will have an opportunity to further their musical training and to observe at first hand that which is being given those whom they are later to direct. The United States Navy's Music School building is a homely affair trimly painted in the traditional battleship gray. One suspects it of having been a no longer needed warehouse, capably utilized for its present purpose. How interesting it is within though! There literally isn't an unused spot in its entire spick-and- span midst. The instrument room is a fascinating place in itself with those not in use as tenderly wrapped up as which are sheets of music and theory books instead of the traditional student effects. In individual practice rooms with special instructors were students playing on every instrument that makes up a band or an orchestra—all 50 absorbed and interested, and mak- | fairy sighed for the neglected musical opportunities of your youth. Every- where you see pictures of great mas- ters and of famous modern musicians —likewise, all manner of working drawings of every kind of modern in- strument. One place of especial in- terest to me, too, was the repair cubicle to & violin happened to be the work of the moment under a Navy band man experienced in his task and bending over it with loving care. Everywhere was a spirit of unity, of pride in being one of Uncle Sam's Mu- sic School students and of joy in have ing the opportunity to pursue as his profession the one above every other which was the choice of his heart. Do you wonder that I came away feeling that the graduates of this school, chosen above many and given every advantage that Lieut. Benter and those associated with him upon the | United States Navy's School of Music can render, are destined to make Navy | Band history the world around? R. JAMES J. HAYDEN, act- ing dean of the School of Law at Catholic University, has announced the forma- |tion of a group of legal debate clulmi in which all classes of the School lof Law will be represented. The formation of these clubs resulted from | | the initiative of the student body at !large and was culminated at a gen- eral assembly held during the last | week. | There will be two clubs, each club being represented by either 14 or 16 | members. These clubs will be divided into individual teams of two, which will allow for intra-club debates and | & method of elimination to select the | team that shall represent the club in |a final meeting with the winning |team of the other organized club. The work of further organizing the clubs has been left to William J. Bar- ron and Harold K. McGann of Wash- ington, both having formerly repre- sented the debating group of the un- dergraduate school. Pawl Heads Alumni. ALTER 8. Assoclation of Washington College of Law at the annual Fall business meet- the degree of bachelor of laws from the college in 1931 and the degree of master of patent law in 1932. He has served two terms as treasurer of the General Alumni Association. 8. Bernard Gahm was re-elected vice president and Cecil W. Macy, secre- tary-treasurer. The membership of the association is composed of grad- uates holding the degree of master of patent law, students enrolled in the patent law department and graduates professionally interested in branch of law. The senior classes are sponsoring an all-school festival dance to be held in the rose room of the Washington Hotel on December 19 from 10 p.m. to 1 am. The dance is for the benefit of the year book fund. Thanksgiving at Roosevelt. A’l‘ THE Thanksgiving festival Wednesday morning at Roose- velt High School the students went to the platform to make their offerings for the poor. The stage was deco- rated with Autumn foliage, corn- stalks and pumpkins. The surprise feature of the pro- gram was the call for the retiring principal, Allan Davis, and the pre- sentation to him for the force of en- gineers, electricians and janitors of s fine leather dressing case. Davis made a brief response to the praise and thanks of this large force of em- ployes. Members of the faculty distributed the gifts to various charities. Mrs. Laura Williamson was in charge of the program. Demonstration at Western. STUDINTS of Western High School, in co-operation with members of the faculty, will give practical demon- strations of varied in and out of school activities at the Home and School Association meeting scheduled for next Wednesday. ©On the auditorium stage the crew in charge of Mrs, Page Kirk will show Just how 1t operates for a regular per- formance. The principals of the operetta, “In Arcady,” recently pre- sented, will give several numbers under the direction of Miss Sue Gardner. Orchestral and other music num- bers will be presented under the di- rection of Miss Lucy G. Lynch and Mrs. Gladys Sanders. Girl and boy athletes will give brief demonstrations of training in basket under the supervision of Mrs. A. G. Trenis and C. R. Moore. A miniature cadet drill will be shown under the direction of Joseph G. Murphy, faculty representative in cadets. Organize. Graduate Student Association of American University has been organized at the Graduste School, 1901 F street, has adopted a consti- Hdgh light of all official events in'igorts of players and their instry-|tution and elected the following ofi- if they were day-old infants. The study | hall has open individual lockers in | ing such harmonious sounds that you | where the most delicate adjustments | PAWL was elected | president of the Patent Alumni | ing of the association. Pawl received | that | (Continued From Pirst Page.) join & reputable psychic research so- clety, since the problem of life after death was one of such great sig- nificance. “Why don’t you study the Moham- medan religion?” was his reply to James. “Millions of men think you will be damned if you don’t joint it, yet you don't bother.” Must Divine Highroad. On many matters, he muses, “one must be governed by prejudices—pre=- liminary judgments based on a knowl- edge admitted not to be exhaustive, but on which at the peril of one’s soul one has to act as life is short. If we have eternity I suppose it must be our duty to have an articulate answer to every imbecility that can be found from the words of the dictionary.” But since life is so short, he con- cludes, “we have to divine which is likely to be the highroad and which a cul-de-sac. We may be wrong, but we have to take the risks.” In another letter Justice Holmes confides in Wu that he does not be- lieve in the Golden Rule. “A lady said the other day,” he writes, “where do you get such a scheme of life as in the New Testa- ment? I replied that I didn’t believe the economic opinion there intimated and that to love my neighbor as my- self did not seem to me the true, or at least the necessary, foundation for a noble life; that I thought the true view was that of my imaginary so- ‘clev.y of jobbists, who were free to be egotists or altruists on the usual Saturday half holiday, provided they were neither while on the job. Their Job is their contribution to the gen- eral welfare, and when a man is on that he will do it better the less he thinks either of himself or his neigh- bors and the more he puts all his energy into the problem he has to solve. I have said this a thousand times before and I ought to apologize for repeating it, but it comes home to me afresh from time to time. It is what I think best men believe, al- believe something else that they hear on Sundays. I wish I loved my fel- low men more than I do, but to love | one’s neighbor as one’s self, taken lit- erally, would mean to realize all his impulses as one’s own, which no one can, and which I humbly think would not be desirable if one could.” Morality Only Check on Force. Again he wrote to Wu from his Summer home on the New England coast: “Formerly, at least, you were inclined with your German teacher to believe in a priori ultimates. I don't, except in the limited sense of human ‘can’t helps’ in the way of ! thinking, which may or may not have Schools and Colleges | cers: President, Milton Abelson; vice president, Bruce MacKay; secretary- treasurer, Miss Louise Babcock, Chairmen of committees are: Edu- cation, Lewis Becker; financial, Paul Anderson; cultural, Grover Hartman; recreational. H. E. Richardson. The Student Advisory Couneil of | the School of Public Affairs has been | formed, consisting of one representa- | tive selected from each class. The first of a series of informal | luncheons for students and faculty of | the School of Public Affairs and their friends will be held at the Harrington |H. Eliot Kaplan, executive secretary of the National Civil Service Reform | League, the speaker. Elected members of the new Stu- | dent Advisory Council are: Inez Ap- | pleby, R. Hamilton Cawood, Lacey F. Rickey, Julia D. Connor, Walter Conway, Robert Evans, Grace Flagg, John Gray, Harry Henderson, Henry | Wold, J. B. Cook, Ruth Duprey, Rob- ert Gamble, T. A. Janssen, Ruth S. Johnson, Robert N. Greenberg, | Kathryn G. Heath, Archer Jordan, Bertram Katz, Edward J. McLain, John W. Mitchell, Ralph Mullendore, Harry K. Underwood, Isabelle Noble, undergraduate student; Geoffrey J. | O'Flynn, Rudolph Rauch, Ralph Rem- | ley, Kenneth Wernimont and Richard | L. Shaw. | TRIN Trinity in Conference. ITY COLLEGE will send two lations conference to be held at the University of Delaware, Newark, on December 4 and 5. The Trinity delegates will be Miss Margaret Bough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Bough of New York, and Miss Mildred McDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. McDonald, ‘Washington, D. C. Miss McDonald is president of the International Rela- tions Club at Trinity. The two-day meeting is sponsored by the Middle Atlantic Association of International Relations Clubs and will include a series of round table dis- cussions. Miss Bough will speak for Trinity, and her topic will be “De- mocracy and Dictatorship.” Gallagher Heads Class. THE election of J. Patrick Gallagher as president of the freshman class of National University was announced yesterday. Gallagher was chosen in a run-off election. Other officers of the class are Powell Conner, vice president; Virginia Silver, secretary; Dorothy Fluck, treasurer, and Fischer Black, sergeant at arms, Judge Charles S. Hatfield, chan- cellor of the university, and Dr. Charles Pergler, dean of the Law School, and Mrs. Pergler were guests of honor at the junior law class dance in the Washington Hotel Thurs- day night. Several members of the faculty at- tended the benefit dance of the Philippinesian Club of George Wash- last night. Degree to Be Conferred. THI freshman law class of South- eastern University Law School will hold its first dance of the year at the Broadmoor on the eyening of December 12, it was announced yes- terday by Lester J. Hook, class presi- dent. More than 200 graduates attended the second annual Southeastérn homecoming last Saturday night. Din- ner was served at 6:30 p.m., followed by s dance. A bound booklet of alumnl news was distributed among the graduates. Dr. James A. Bell, president of the university, introduced Jacob Sandler, vice president of the alumni asso- ciation, who presided at the dinner. Sandler presented Joseph K. Moyer, dean of the School of Accountancy. A feature of the entertainment pro- gram was the presentation by Dr. Bell of the honorary degree of D. H. A. (Doctor of Bn:‘A’l‘r) to August H. Moran, professor W, It was announced that Byron J. Harrill, 8 of the Accountancy School, had passed the recent C. P. A. examinations in North Carolina. Justice Holmes to Dr. Wu though they often suppose that lhey; Hotel next Saturday at 1:20 p.m. with | delegates to the international re- | ington University at Stockton Hall| cosmic validity. I don’t believe that it is an absolute principle or even a human ultimate that man always is an end in himself—that his dignity must be respected, etc. We march up & conscript with bayonets behind him to die for a cause he doesn’t belleve in. And I feel no scruples about it. Our morality seems to me only a check on the ultimate dominance of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.” In the same letter, and following out the same trend of thought, he ex- pressed some of his philosophy of the law, to the study and interpretation of which he had devoted his life. He found in it no “ultimates.” “When it comes to the development of a corpus juris” he wrote Wu, “the ultimate question is what do the dominant forces of a community want and do they want it hard enough to disregard whatever inhibitions may stand in the way. If a given com- munity has a definite ideal, for in- stance, to regulate itself so as to pro- duce a certain type of man, other communities would have a different one—and that community might change in a hundred years. But sup- pose the ideal accepted, there would be infinite differences of opinion as to the way in which it was to be achieved, and the law of a given mo- ment would represent only the domi- nant will of the moment, subject to change on experiment or for deeper reasons. “You assume a body of law in force, and start to formulate principles of Jjuristic development. I should think the only principles worth talking about were the existing notions of public policy. How those notions have | changed and still change I don't need to illustrate to you.” Thoughts Turn to War. Dr. Wu was living in a land torn | | by revolution and months elapsed when the old man in the I street | study got no word from his young con- fidante. He worried about his safety a great deal and his thoughts turned | at times to the subject of war, with | its tragedies and its place in human | relations. He saw no peace. He wrote Wu: By s coincidence, the moment I| came upstairs to my library I had been talking about war with & guest who served in France. I am afraid that my talk was a little more skeptical than you would approve, perhaps be- cause I am old and have seen many wars. It is, shortly, this. We all try to make the kind of a world we shiould like. What we like lies too deep for argument and can be changed only gradually, often through the experi- ence of many generations. If the dif- ferent desires of different people come in conflict in a region that each wishes to occupy, especially if it is a physical | region, and each wishes it strongly | enough, what is there to do except to | remove the other if you can? “I hate to discourage the belief of & young man in reason. I believe in it with all my heart, but I think that its control over the sctions of men when it comes against what they want is not very great. A century ago Mal- | thus ran his sword through fallacies | that one would have thought must die | | then and there. but men didn't like to believe him, and the humbugs that he killed are as alive as ever today.” Easy to Talk High Talk. Again on the same subject he wrote: | “The test of an ideal, or rather of an | idealist, is the power to hold to it and | get one’s inspiration from it under diffi- culties. When one is comfortable and well off, it is easy to talk high talk. [ I remember just before the battle of | Antietam thinking and perhaps saying to a brother officer that it would be easy after a comfortable breakfast to | come down the steps of one’s house, | HE SUNDAY ‘.STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 29, 1936—PART TWO. PARK LEGTURES T0 BEGIN DEC. 9 C. Marshall Finnan Will Speak on Progress in Na- tional Capital Parks. A wide variety is embraced in the list of National Park Service lectures for the Winter season, made public today. Lectures will be at the Gov- ernment Auditorium, Constitution dvenue at Thirteenth street, and will be free to the public. C. Marshall Finnan, Washington's park chief, will speak on “Three Years of Progress in the National Capital Parks” on December 9. ‘The next speaker in the series will be Victor H. Cahalane, acting chief of the Wildlife Division of the Na- tional Park Seryice. His subject is “Little-known Mammals of the Na- tional Parks” and will be delivered on December 2. ‘The list of other lectures follows: “A Trip to the National Parks,” by Dr. H. W. Zeeler, illustrated in natural color by the Kodachrome process, January 8. “The Colonial Parks and Their Historic Background,” by B. Floyd Flickinger, superintendent of Colonial National Historical Park, January 13 * National Park Museums in Amer- ica and Europe,” by Dr. Carl P. Russell, chief of Wildlife Division, Na- tional Park Service, January 27. “Hawaii National Park and the National Parks of Japan,” by Merel 8. Sager, park planner, National Park Service, February 3. “Our National Parks Througa the | Ages,” by Earl A. Trager, chief of Naturalist Division, National Park Service, January 17. “The Grand Teton National Park— Jackson Hole Area,” illustrated in natural color slides, by R. A. Kirk- patrick, March 3. “Natchez Trace and the Blue Ridge Parkway,” by Dudley C. Bayliss, as- sistant chief architect, National Park Service, March 17. “Trekking Through the South- west,” by Kenneth B. Disher, nt chief of Museum Division, National | Park Service, April 7. | _— which I call reason and truth are cosmic can’t helps. I know nothing about it.” Thus the strange correspondence continued at intervals for 11 years, | from 1921 to 1932. | His doubts and sadness were miti- | gated by a certain pride as the years went on. In his letters to Wu he counted the months between him and the record of being the oldest man ever to sit on the Supreme Court bench. and there was a note of real pride when he could proclaim finally that he had at least beaten out former Chief Justice Taney in longevity. Haunted By Death Thoughts. ‘Thoughts of death haunted him. He looked into the dark with the resoluteness of Browning's Gnmamn‘ and the conviction that the only fun- damentals were honesty with onesself and honesty of one’s efforts. Let the Infinite make what it would of them. “If I were dying,” he wrote Wu, | “my last words would be: Have faith | and pursue the unknown end.” The idea he expressed so often— | that the individual wes a knot or ganglion of streams of some sort of cosmic energy, and that death was the untying of the knot, after which the streams went on as before to become enmeshed in new ganglions “to frame & syllogism or wag a tail"—grew upon him. In 1929 his wife died. She was of his own age—88. “It takes away half my life and | | pulling on one’s gloves and smoking a cigar, to get on to a horse and charge | a battery up Beacon street, while the | ladies wave handkerchiefs from a bal- | cony. But the reality was to pass a | night on the ground :n the rain with your bowels out of order, and then, after no particular breakfast, to wade & stream and attack the enemy. That is lite. “I hope that your interest in phi- | | losophy (and philosopny wisely under- stood is the greatest interest there is) will not lead you too far from the con- crete. My notion of the philosophic movement is simply to see the univer- sal in the particular, which perhaps is | & commonplace, but the best of com- monplaces if you realize that every | particular is as good as any other to illustrate it, subject only to the quali~ fication that some can see it in one, some in another matter more readily, according to their faculties, The artist sees the line of growth in a tree, the muddle, the lawyer a principle in a lot | of dramatic detail.” Holmes Was Realist. Justice Holmes was a realist. e be- | lieved that space and time and eternity were things that had a real existence outside his own mind, and that they constituted a vastness in which his | mind and all it contemplated consti- tuted the pettiest of details. He wrote Wu on the subject which has stirred 50 many arguments: “I don’t believe or know anything about absolute truth. I noticed once that you treated it as a joke when I asked you how you knew you weren't dreaming me. I am quite serious. We begin with an act of faith, with decid- ing that we are not God, for if we were dreaming the universe we should be God, so far as we knew. “You never can prove that you are awake. By an act of faith I assume that you exist in the same sense that I do, and by the same act assume that I am in the universe and not it in me, I regard myself as a cosmic ganglion— & part of an unimaginable—and don’t venture to assume that my can’t helps BOYD BUSINESS 34 SECRETARIAL, STENOGRAPHIC, JUNIOR ACCOUNTING andin BI.ISINE§S MANAGEMENT — Gl Servicd Iraining a $p DAY AND EVENI SESSIONS OPERATES umm: £ EMPLOVMENT AGENCY OFFICE HELP ’&%‘m 1333 F ST.N.W. NATona12340 - CLASSES START Wednesday, December 2 ITALIAN Yamous Conversational Beriits Method THE G THi8Conn. ave O e business man an opportunity in a | |ff gives me notice,” he wrote Wu, “I may work on for a year or two, but ' I cannot hope to add much to what I have done. I “I am too skeptical to think that it | matters much, but too conscious of | the mystery of the universe to say| that it or anything else does not. I bow my head. I think serenely. | “O cosmos—now lettest thou thy ganglion dissolve in peace.” The last letter to Wu was written on March 14, 1932. Justice Cardoza had just been appointed to the Supreme Court as his successor. “I have just had a call from | Cardoza,” he wrote. “I think you would love him as I do, and have | from the first moment I saw him— & beautiful spirit.” THE TEMPLE SCHOOL Register Now for Beginners’ and Advonced Classes in Secretarial Subjects, Including Stenotypy. Day and Evening School Enroliment Open in Day School Every Mond Positions Secured for Graduates Catalog on Request iil1420 K St. N.W. National STENOTYPY The Machine-Way in Shorthand 150 te 2350 Words Per Minute Call, phone or write for full information THE STENOTYPE COMPANY 604 Albee Bids. ___Phone NAtional 8320 WALTER T. 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The rector of St. Ignatius Church is Rev. Cole- man Nevils, 8. J.,, former Georgetown president. RESTAURANT GROUP WILL HOLD MEETING Plans for Regional Convention to Be Perfected at Session To- morrow Night. A pre-convention “pep meeting” will be staged by the Washington Restaurant Association at 8:30 pm. tomorrow to perfect plans for the forthcoming reglonal convention, scheduled for December 7-9 at the Mayflower Hotel. The convention, sponsored by the local association and the National Restaurant Association, will attract | restauranteurs not only from nearby States, but also the Middle West and food displays, utility exhibits and varied program of entertainment will mark the three-day session. Becretary of Commerce Roper, W. | Frank Persons, director of the United States Employment Service and Brig. Gen. James A. Drain of the educa- | tional division of the Social Security | Board, will make addresses. Julius Lulley is president of the | ‘Washington association. TWO SEAMEN ARRESTED Interference With Unloading Ships Charge at Charleston. CHARLESTON, 8. C., November 28 (#)—Two seamen from the strike- | | bound American-Hawaiian steamship Virginia, booked as C. E. Davis and | | Serge Mich, were held here today on charges of interfering with labor. | They are alleged to have interfered with longshoremen unloading the ves- sel's cargo. Agents for the ship, using steam for two tugboats, had | started discharging the cargo a few | hours earlier. . TOMORRO To Save Some END OF THE MONTH SALE OF ENGRAVED FRAMES $6.95 Complete glasses at this low price — White or pink gold-filled frames withsingle-vision lenses. This low price D—9 TRINITY ALUMNAE IN'FINAL SESSION Tea and Reception Will Be Followed by Benediction in Notre Dame Chapel. A two-day meeting of the alumnae association of Trinity College of Cath= olic University will close this afternoon with a reception and tea in the college social hall followed by benediction in Notre Dame Chapel. 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